Pitchfork Guide to Summer Festivals

A list of the many, many big shows coming up this summer around the world

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Memorial Day weekend is here in just a few hours, which means summer unofficially starts right about now. Among many other awesome things, that means we're now heading straight into summer festival season.

If you've got the time and the money to do enough traveling, you could spend every weekend between now and September standing out in a field with thousands of other like-minded music fans. Every year, more and more festivals seem to show up on our radar, and there's just a staggering number of multi-band extravaganzas coming up. So to help keep things straight, we've compiled info on a whole lot of big upcoming shows below.